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	New Street 28 1280 x 851 249K	Demolition continues. Brick dust coats New Street and for the first time for many years it's possible to see the train tunnels from here.
	New Street 29 1280 x 851 339K	Zooming in for a closer look at the tunnels passing under Regent Road. From this viewpoint it's not obvious that Calton Road separates this former bus garage from the tunnels.
	New Street 30 1280 x 851 271K	A more permanent building lies beyond, the old Royal High School building on Regent Road.
	New Street 31 1280 x 851 260K	For those drivers who must bring their cars into the centre of town, there is still parking available off New Street. A lane leads through the new building on the other side of the road into the Waverley Station carpark.
	New Street 32 1280 x 851 370K	This machine was sorting the rubble into piles as I watched, separating metal girders and timber from masonry.
	New Street 33 1152 x 849 314K	Further down the hill towards Calton Road these wooden panels are adorned with cow designs, described here in the accompanying 3D text. The face at the top right is intriguing; I don't know if it represents anyone in particular. A distant figure stands at the railings up on Regent Road, looking at the view.
	New Street 34 1280 x 851 254K	In this view looking back up the hill towards the Canongate, the cow designs in front of the brick wall can be seen. A black cab heads down to Calton Road.
	New Street 35 1280 x 851 223K	These girders support the floor above (as seen in New Street 29). The vertical ones don't look strong enough to support the additional weight of vehicles.
	New Street 36 1280 x 851 252K	A last look up the road from under the railway line. If you turn around and cross Calton Road, Jacob's Ladder leads up steps to Regent Road, from where the next pictures were taken.
	New Street 37 1269 x 783 265K	Comparison with Calton Road 33 taken on 5th May reveals the pace of demolition. This picture taken on 24th July '06.
	New Street 38 1280 x 851 376K	A long lens shot from the top of Jacob's Ladder looking back towards the corner of New Street and East Market Street, from where the earlier pictures were taken.
	New Street 39 1214 x 1024 403K	Zooming in reveals two workmen standing beside some grafitti, the digger machine surrounded by rubble, and a couple walking round the corner from East Market Street into New Street.
	New Street 42 1280 x 851 237K	The next 6 photos were taken a couple of weeks later. This wide view was taken from Regent Road. The stone walls in the left foreground conceal the steps known as Jacob's Ladder which lead down to Calton Road, opposite the foot of New Street. Salisbury Crags and Arthur's Seat are on the left horizon. The Canongate leads up the slope to the right, past the top of New Street. The dome is Edinburgh University Old College.
	New Street 43 1280 x 794 366K	5 archaeologists study the long-buried remains of previous lives and times. If there's anything worth preserving, hopefully it could be incorporated into a feature of the forthcoming project, for example: a sunken courtyard with seats overlooking. In the background, piles of rubble have been neatly graded and sorted for removal.
	New Street 45 1152 x 806 274K	Zooming in reveals more detail of the archaelogical find, and the care being taken in uncovering the past.
	New Street 46 1280 x 851 441K	A few metres to the west the diggers are still moving the big rubble and a workman is spraying water from a hosepipe (no ban here) to damp down the dust and keep it from being blown onto nearby homes.
	New Street 44 1024 x 681 217K	From New Street is this closer view of the workman with the hosepipe.
	New Street 47 1280 x 851 320K	New Street 23 on page 7 shows what it looked like 3 months earlier.
	Cranston Street 1280 x 904 311K	A monochrome study of the granite setts which still surface many of Edinburgh's remaining cobbled streets. The inscription EWW on the metal covers may stand for Edinburgh Water Works. The Canongate (part of the Royal Mile) as at the top of the hill.
	Jeffrey Street 08 1280 x 826 290K	There are other pictures of Jeffrey Street in other parts of this site because it can be seen from other places (try searching for jeffrey using the Google search on the home page). In this photo we're looking up at the curved part of Jeffrey Street from the corner of Cranston Street and East Market Street.
	New Street 55 1280 x 1011 352K	Lorries have been removing material from this site for a few weeks now but this one seems to be bringing supplies associated with the preservation of the archaeologists' discoveries. The covered hole in the foreground is over the old ground floor parking area accessible from Calton Road.
	New Street 54 1280 x 722 233K	Zoomed in for a closer look at one of the archaeologists and his equipment.
	New Street 56 1280 x 770 434K	Builder's rubble, scrap metal etc have been neatly sorted for recycling.

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